Save Article

The Virtual March on Washington for Immigration

Tech leaders launch an Internet campaign to make the country more open to innovators.

By

L. Gordon Crovitz

Feb. 24, 2013 7:26 p.m. ET

This is the year when immigration reform might happen, but leaders in the technology industry distrust politicians enough not to take chances. A group of entrepreneurs and venture capitalists is launching a "virtual march on Washington. They will be using the Internet and social media to argue for making the U.S. more welcoming of skilled workers.

The website launching Monday, www.MarchforInnovation.com, aims to harness the digital activism that last year killed overbroad antipiracy legislation with millions of emails...